Abstract: The present disclosure relates to means of managing eye-length disorders, like myopia. The invention includes an apparatus and methods for the prescription, selection, supply and fitting of sets, stocks, or kits of pairs of myopia management spectacles, or spectacle fronts, attachable impermanent auxiliary optical films, or mini optical elements, used in conjunction with standard single vision spectacles, said auxiliary optical films, or optical elements possess one or more meridionally and azimuthally variant power distributions resulting in a delta power and said power distributions are devoid of mirror symmetry, wherein the apparatus and methods are configured to provide a conoid of partial blur, or at least one regional conoid of partial blur, at the retina of the myopic eye to decelerate, ameliorate, control, inhibit, or reduce the rate of myopia progression over time, wherein the method is a prescribed care regimen providing temporal and spatial variation to the directional optical cues or stop signals.

Abstract: Embodiments of a method in a network node for resource allocation are disclosed. The method includes selecting a user set of wireless devices from available predefined user sets; estimating expected data rates for the wireless devices in the selected user set for a selected radio resource; computing a weighted sum of the expected rates of the wireless devices in the user set; and assigning a given the selected radio resource to the user set with the highest weighted sum. A criterion for dynamic resource allocation that can opportunistically exploit the channel variations towards achieving the optimal trade-off between the network capacity and wireless device-fairness is also disclosed.

Abstract: Described in this document is a process for making heat transfer devices such as cold plates. The cold plates can be made by 3-D printing a polymer substrate, applying thermal spraying deposition of metal over the substrate, dissolving the substrate for removal to form an enclosed flow region through for passage of heat transfer fluid. Molten metal droplets can be sprayed onto the substrate having a surface region comprising a water-soluble thermoplastic to form metal splats on the surface region at a splat temperature and surface properties such that the metal splats penetrate and interlock to form a solid metal coating adhered to the polymer substrate. A dissolvable substrate can facilitate removal by contacting with a solvent to form the enclosed flow region defined by metallic surfaces, and also can enable complex geometries and enhanced heat transfer performance without the need for extensive machining.

Abstract: A method for securing a network is described. The method includes receiving, by a virtual-edge (VE) docker of the network, a flow-tuple including data associated with at least a source device of the network, from an Internet Protocol (IP) flow cache. The method further includes performing, by the VE docker, a policy lookup for the flow-tuple in policy for the source device. The method furthermore includes pushing, by the VE docker, a transformed network access control (NAC) including NAC constructs based on the policy lookup, to an enforcement point (EP) in proximity to the source device.

Abstract: A load source that includes: a housing, a battery integrally disposed within the housing, a load source computing device, and a battery management system associated with the battery. The load source is configured for one or both of: the battery management system configured to identify a first error based at least in part on a first set of data associated with the load source and report the first error to the load source computing device to cause a change in operation of the load source, and the load source computing device configured to identify a second error based at least in part on a second set of data associated with the load source and report the second error to the battery management system to cause a change in operation of the battery.

Abstract: Halide-functionalized cyclotrisilazane precursor compounds according to Formulae A and B, and methods using the same, for depositing a silicon-containing film such as silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, silicon carbonitride, silicon oxycarbonitride, or carbon-doped silicon oxide via a thermal atomic layer deposition (ALD) or plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) process, and combinations thereof.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to power module cooling systems. In particular, some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to power module cooling systems with structures to generate three-dimensional swirling and tumbling in liquid coolant flowing within a chamber of the cooling system. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate, a buffer layer, an oxide semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, and a gate electrode. The buffer layer is disposed on the substrate. The oxide semiconductor layer is disposed on the buffer layer and has a first part and a second part adjacent to the first part. The first insulating layer is disposed on the oxide semiconductor layer. The gate electrode is disposed on the first insulating layer and overlapped with the first part of the oxide semiconductor layer. Moreover, an intensity of SiN— at an interface between the first part and the first insulating layer is greater than an intensity of SiN— at an interface between the first part and the buffer layer in a spectrum measured by TOF-SIMS. A method of manufacturing an electronic device is also provided.

Abstract: Methods for treating liver immune dysfunction in a subject are provided. The liver immune dysfunction may be induced by at least one tumor resulting from metastasis in the liver or at least one primary liver cancer. An exemplary method comprises administering to the subject a toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonist, for example, a TLR 9 agonist having the structure: 5?-TCG AAC GTT CGA ACG TTC GAA CGT TCG AAT-3. The TLR9 agonist is administered to the liver, for example, the TLR9 agonist may be administered to the liver using a locoregional therapy through the vasculature.

Abstract: Described herein are techniques for optimizing real-time traffic flow of a multi-class vehicle network. In some embodiments, a trained machine learning model may be used to determine one or more segments of a street network where traffic congestion is predicted to occur at a predetermined future time. The vehicles may include a first type of vehicle and a second type of vehicle, each occupying different portions of a given segment. A subset of vehicles occupying the segments at the predetermined future time may be identified and, for each, a set of alternative routes may be determined. Quantum optimization data, including the pre-selected routes, the alternative routes, and an indication of whether the vehicle is of a first or second type, may be provided to a quantum computing system, which may return an updated route for at least some of the vehicles to minimize traffic congestion at the predetermined future time.

Abstract: An electronic device, having a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region, is provided. The electronic device includes a light sensor, a first light-emitting element, and a second light-emitting element. The light sensor is disposed in the first region and is configured to receive a light signal. The first light-emitting element is disposed in the first region. The second light-emitting element is disposed in the second region. The first light-emitting element is driven by a first driving signal. The first driving signal has a first duty cycle. The second light-emitting element is driven by a second driving signal. The second driving signal has a second duty cycle. The first duty cycle has a first duty ratio. The second duty cycle has a second duty ratio. The first duty ratio is less than the second duty ratio. The electronic device provides a better light sensing function.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a chip-scale atomic beam system comprising an atomic vapor source, a plurality of channels, and a propagation chamber. The atomic vapor source chamber can comprise an atomic vapor source configured to emit an atomic vapor. The plurality of channels can have first ends and second ends. The first ends can be in fluid communication with the atomic vapor source chamber. The plurality of channels can be configured to collimate the atomic vapor as it moves through the plurality of channels from the first ends to the second ends. The propagation chamber can be in fluid communication with the second ends of the plurality of channels. The propagation chamber can have an internal pressure less than an internal pressure of the atomic vapor source chamber to enable the collimated atomic vapor to propagate through the propagation chamber.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to performing navigation operations based on junction area information digested at runtime of one or more systems of a machine. In some embodiments, the junction area information may be encoded in map data corresponding to a map, and the encoding may include organizing vehicle paths that traverse through a junction area according to path groups and organizing contentions that influence behavior of vehicles traveling along the vehicle paths according to contention groups. In addition, the encoding may include generating direction data structures that associate respective path groups with one or more of the contention groups. In these or other embodiments, the map data that corresponds to the junction area may be updated with direction data structures.

Abstract: An information handling resource may include a circuit board and a straddle mount connector mounted to an edge of the circuit board and configured to receive an edge connector of a second circuit board in order to electrically and mechanically couple the second circuit board to the circuit board. The straddle mount connector may include a first member surface mounted to a first side of the circuit board proximate to the edge and a second member surface mounted to a second side of the circuit board proximate to the edge, such that the second member and the first member define a receptacle for receiving the edge connector.

Abstract: A drop placement analyzer for an inkjet printer is described herein. The drop placement analyzer comprises a film support that has an opaque, optically non-interfering vacuum surface for immobilizing a film against the optically non-interfering vacuum surface and photographing drops disposed on the film from the same side of the film on which the drops are disposed.

Abstract: A vehicle, slew rate control circuit and method of operating an electric motor of a vehicle. The slew rate control circuit is between a gate driver of the vehicle and an inverter of the vehicle. The slew rate control circuit includes a first branch between the gate driver and the inverter, wherein the inverter provides an electrical signal output to an electric motor of the vehicle, and a second branch between the gate driver and the inverter in parallel with the first branch, wherein current flows through the first branch during a first time period and through the second branch during a second time period, wherein the flow of the current controls a slew rate of the electrical signal output by the inverter to the electric motor.

Abstract: A vehicle communication system is provided. The system includes a modifiable database that contains customer defined messages to be downlinked. A user interface is provided that includes a downlink content display and user input functions that enable a user to select which of a plurality of downlink content messages provided in a consolidated panel layout of the downlink content display to include in a combined downlink content message. A communication controller determines a phase of travel and causes to be displayed a plurality of downlink content messages from the modifiable database based on the determined phase of travel on the downlink content display of the user interface and communicate a combined downlink content message of the user selected downlink content to a remote location via the transceiver upon activation of a send input on the user interface.

Abstract: Techniques for UNDO and REDO operations in a computer-user interface are disclosed. The techniques enables users to configure entities for UNDO and REDO operations. The techniques also enable users to roll back individual entity to an immediate previous state in one UNDO operation and subsequently to the other previous states. Other entities are not affected by the UNDO operations to the entity.

Abstract: A device may process the surveillance video data to segment vehicles, and may utilize a segmentation guided attention network model with the vehicles to determine traffic density count data. The device may process an image segmentation map, with a regression analysis model, to derive traffic signal timing. The device may process the surveillance video data, with a deep learning model, to identify objects, and may utilize a YOLO model, with the objects, to determine object types. The device may utilize a curriculum loss model with the objects to determine crowd count data, and may process the surveillance video data, with a video analytics model, to identify first events. The device may process the surveillance video data, with a classifier and deep network models, to identify second events, and may process the determined information, with a dynamic text-based explanation model, to generate a text-based explanation and/or a failure prediction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for vehicle-occupancy-based and user-preference-based smart routing, and autonomous volumetric-occupancy measurement. In an embodiment, a system is configured to receive from a user device associated with a user, a routing-options request for routing options between two locations, and to responsively identify one or more routing options between the two locations based at least in part on occupancy data for a vehicle that would be utilized for at least a portion of at least one of the identified routing options. The occupancy data is based on an output of an automated occupancy-measurement system onboard the vehicle. The system is also configured to provide the one or more identified routing options to the user device. In some embodiments, the occupancy data is obtained using volumetric-occupancy measurement. Some embodiments relate to volumetric-occupancy measurement conducted by autonomous mesh nodes.